New Orleans There was a piece in the Times today that was frightening to me, and probably to all community organizers because as sure as I was reading it, I could see the workload climbing! The piece said that a website called “Outside.In” was collecting local news and blog posts covering about 3000 neighborhoods in …
Month: April 2007
Corporate Training
Denver The organizers wanted some perspectives on training, so at the Organizers’ Forum’s Spring Dialogue on training, we brought in to guests. One was Daisy Rooks of UCLA, who had interviewed 70 odd folks who had passed through the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute between 1991 and 2006. The comments from some of her interviews were pretty …
Job/Life Balance
Denver Michele Healy, the new chief of staff for SEIU’s Organizing Department, and one of the founding directors of their WAVE training program for new organizers, started one session of the Organizers’ Forum by listing the six things that she felt were critical in good training and retention of competent organizers. Number 2 on the …